---
title: "Invite a team to a tournament"
method: POST
path: "/tournaments/{identifier}/invites"
tags: ["Tournament: Staff & Invites"]
---

# Invite a team to a tournament

`POST /tournaments/{identifier}/invites`

Invites a team to the tournament and notifies its captains. Requires the tournaments invites capability and ADMIN authority - strictly higher than the MANAGER floor for reading the invite list, because in an INVITE_ONLY tournament the invite is the entry gate; a tournament MODERATOR answers 403. Re-inviting a team reuses that team's existing invite row rather than creating a second one, so retries cannot mint duplicates. Answers 400 error_invalid_input when the team does not exist, plays a different game to the tournament, or already holds a PENDING or ACCEPTED invite.

## Path parameters

- `identifier` string, required — Tournament slug.

## Request body

- TournamentInviteTeamBody — Tournament team invitation payload.
  - `teamId` string, required — Team ID to invite.

## Response `200`

The invite was created.

- TournamentWriteAck — Acknowledgement returned by the tournament write endpoints whose backing operation has nothing to return - the organizer writes (endpoints 22-34), the team roster writes (40, 41), and the competitor self actions that neither mint nor resolve a row (38, 39, 44, 45, 47). Endpoints that mint a row answer with that row's id instead, and the two respond endpoints (42, 46) answer with the decision they recorded.
  - `success` true, required — Always true; failures are error responses.
  - `timestamp` string, required — Response generation time (ISO 8601).

## Other responses

- `400` — Bad request (invalid body, cursor, limit, or date).
- `401` — Missing or invalid API key.
- `403` — API key lacks the required permission.
- `404` — Resource not found.
- `429` — Rate limited.
- `500` — Internal server error.

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